Novels

Impossibly enigmatic early novels and richly textured mature ones may have
yielded in part to sentimental conventionalism in later works. There is often
a crowning moment, a revelation of something that has been forgotten or repressed,
but whose telling is obscurely foreshadowed by events arranged in accordance with
some cubist chronology. But that's only my "take' -- I suggest you read them
yourself!

Charivari (1949) novella

The Cannibal (1949) "a bleak story of post-war Germany"

The Beetle Leg (1951) a surrealistic Western

The Goose on the Grave and The Owl (1954)
two novellas set in Italy

The Lime Twig (1961) called "a surreal version of Brighton Rock,"
it met with critical acclaim

Second Skin (1964) "a romantic sea captain whose family has
been blasted by suicide but who is possessed of a lusting will to survive" -- Anon.
"A magnificent work of the imagination. The pleasures of the story are prufuse
and exciting." -- Bernard Malamud

The Blood Oranges (1971) robustly sensuous tale of an ill-fated group
of "swingers"

Death, Sleep and the Traveler (1974)

Travesty (1976)

The Passion Artist (1979) a man discovers his repressed sexuality,
finds out his daughter is a prostitute, and after a prison break at the women's
prison that houses his mother, who apparently murdered his father...

Virginie: Her Two Lives (1981)

Adventures in the Alaskan Skin Trade (1985)

Innocence in Extremis (1985)

Whistlejacket (1988) about a horse painting and the photographer
who loves the widow of the painting's owner...

Sweet William (1989) also about a horse

The Frog (1996) a boy swallows a frog which survives within
him and gives him power over others -- a "parable of violence and illusion"

An Irish Eye (1997)

Plays

The Innocent Party (1966) four short plays

Shorter Fiction

Lunar Landscapes (1969) collecting the earlier novellas and short stories